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Arnold Lobel.

Writer & illustrator · United States · b. 1933

Arnold Lobel: canonical American creator of Frog and Toad, Owl at Home and Mouse Tales — the gold-standard gentle early-reader books since the 1970s, for ages 5–8.

Arnold Lobel (1933–1987) was an American author-illustrator, the creator of Frog and Toad, the four-volume early-reader collection (Frog and Toad Are Friends, Frog and Toad Together, Frog and Toad All Year, Days with Frog and Toad) that has been one of the defining early-reader properties since the 1970s. Frog and Toad: two friends, gentle observational humour, deceptively small everyday stakes (Frog can't find a button, Toad wants to go on holiday alone, they both eat too many cookies) handled with extraordinary craft and emotional intelligence. Lobel also wrote Mouse Tales, Owl at Home and Fables (Caldecott Medal, 1981). A canonical American early-reader author.